Re: [PATCH] arm64: fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu

Marc Zyngier
2015-08-29T18:14:45Z

On 2015-08-29 16:12, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 2015/8/29 21:00, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>> From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
>>
>> When cpu is disabled, all irqs will be migratged to another cpu.
>> In some cases, a new affinity is different, it needed to be coppied
>> to irq's affinity. But if the type of irq is LPI, it's affinity will
>> not be coppied because of irq_set_affinity's return value.
>> So copy the affinity, when the return value is IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE.
> Hi Yingliang,
> If irq_set_affinity callback returns IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE,
> it means that irq_set_affinity has copied the new CPU mask to irq
> affinity mask. It would be better to change irq_set_affinity for LPI
> to follow this rule.

The main issue here seems to be that we do not call irq_set_affinity,
but
that we directly call into the top-level irqchip method, which relies
on
the core code to do the copy (see irq_do_set_affinity). Too bad.

It feels like the arm/arm64 code would probably be better consolidated
into
kernel/irq/migration.c, which already deals with some of this for x86
and ia64. It would save us the duplication and will make sure we don't
miss things next time we add a new return code, as irq_do_set_affinity
would handle this properly.

Thoughts?

M.
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